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Spotify Will Stream Videos And Podcasts Now Too
The on-demand music streaming leader will transform into a multimedia platform, with content from partners including Vice News, Comedy Central, MTV, ESPN, Radiolab, and more. Andrew Burton / Getty...
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Zosia Mamet, Vanessa Bayer, And Fred Armisen Re-Created "The Golden Girls"...
Shosh makes a surprisingly good Dorothy, tbh. Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions Autumn deWilde/ Warner Bros. Records Though she's spent much of the past two decades reinventing herself, Lewis playfully...
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Can Apple Fix Music Again?
Apple Music’s real competitor isn’t Spotify, but years of diverging consumer trends. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Answer this question without thinking about it too much: Where do you go when you...
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The End Of Album Privilege
Pop-punk band All Time Low, who were kept from the top of the Billboard 200 by sales of the Furious 7 single "See You Again." All Time Low / Facebook It used to be that there was no greater...
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Taylor Swift Donated $15,000 To The Firefighter Who Saved His Own Family
A friend of the VanRiper family set up a GoFundMe page to help with their medical costs, and Swift delivered. On Saturday, a Texas firefighter named Aaron VanRiper responded to the scene of a car...
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Taylor Swift's "1989" Will Not Be On Apple Music
The technology giant could not secure the rights to Swift’s latest blockbuster, which will remain unavailable on any streaming service, BuzzFeed News has learned. Christopher Polk / Getty Images Apple...
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What Apple Music Gets Right, And Wrong, About Music Fandom
I’m a longtime Spotify premium subscriber, but while on a trip out of town over the 4th of July weekend, I used the new Apple Music streaming service as my sole source for tunes, as I have exclusively...
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The Unbreakable Rebecca Black
Rebecca Black just turned 18 and she’s forgotten how to flirt. It’s a problem. She might be at a party in a circle of friends, all of them egging her on, with an attractive and available-seeming (but...
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Disclosure Want To Be Bigger Than Dance Music
Guy and Howard Lawrence, who started making electronic music as Disclosure when they were still in their teens, settled on the genre for the same reason that many teenagers choose their...
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Your Perfect End-Of-Summer Mix Is Here, From DJ A-Trak
BBQ bangers served by the co-founder of Fool’s Gold Records. Bad News: Summer, like the impaled remains of a drippy popsicle, is almost over. Good News: your three-day Labor Day weekend is upon us,...
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Selena Gomez's "Good For You" And The Rise Of "Indie Pop Voice"
How a vocal phenomenon called “vowel breaking” became an epidemic in pop music. BuzzFeed News; Getty Images (4) If you've turned on the radio at all over the past few months, you've probably heard the...
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The #Blessed Life Of Kaskade, EDM's Voice Of Reason
The W Hotel in downtown Atlanta narrows twice near its summit, 28 gloriously reflective stories in the air, so that the roof of the building feels almost impossibly small. All that glass and concrete...
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What Makes Carly Rae Jepsen A Pop Star?
Carly Rae Jepsen built her career crafting fantasies that other people either believed in or wished they did, and she’s always coming up with new ones for herself. The latest goes like this: Jepsen...
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20 Major Pop Stars Dodged Our Questions About Whether They’d Work With Dr. Luke
The super producer is accused of sexually assaulting and abusing Kesha. But will that hurt his business? The influence of Dr. Luke, a powerful figure in the music industry who has produced over 30 Top...
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Learning To Mourn In My Father's Country
I remember feeling grateful that we never said “Merry Christmas.” We didn’t say it on Christmas morning when we awoke in Virginia, during a layover at the world’s most desolate Hampton Inn &...
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This 11-Year-Old Piano Prodigy Is Too Damn Talented For Words
Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock are big fans. Meet Joey Alexander. Rebecca Meek. He's 11 years old and, like most kids his age, loves a good heap of french fries. Joey Alexander / Facebook. But...
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"Uptown Funk" Gets Five New Songwriters After Copyright Claim
The hit funk revival anthem was accused of sounding too similar to The Gap Band’s ’70s classic “Oops Upside Your Head.” Robin Marchant / Getty Images When it was released last November, "Uptown Funk,"...
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5 South African Artists Every Music Fan Needs To Hear Before They Die
An eclectic mix of dance, pop, and jazz from the rainbow nation hand-picked by Nozinja. This is Nozinja. In South Africa, he's a living legend. Warp Records. He's the originator or Shangaan Electro, a...
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How Hip-Hop Conquered Streaming
Alice Mongkongllite / BuzzFeed News Earlier this year, on Valentine’s Day, much of the internet was enamored of Drake. The Toronto rapper’s commercial mixtape, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,...
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15 Things You Probably Didn't Know About A$AP Rocky
“I used to be proud of my Old Navy, man.” On Thursday night, A$AP Rocky sat down for a public chat in his native Harlem as a part of the Red Bull Music Academy New York festival. Speaking with veteran...
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